The king and the people : sovereignty and popular politics in Mughal Delhi / Abishek Kaicker.
Material type: TextPublisher: New York : Oxford University Press, [2020]Description: xiii, 351 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780190070670
- 9780197531839
- 954.025 23 KAI
- DS461 .K216 2020
Item type | Current library | Home library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Book | Dept. of Islamic Studies Processing Center | Dept. of Islamic Studies | 954.025 KAI (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | ISL7767 |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 309-336) and index.
"An unprecedented exploration of the relationship between the Mughal emperor and his subjects in the space of the Mughal empire's capital, The King and the People overturns an axiomatic assumption in the history of premodern South Asia: that the urban masses were merely passive objects of rule and remained unable to express collective political aspirations until the coming of colonialism. Set in the Mughal capital of Shahjahanabad (Delhi) from its founding to Nadir Shah's devastating invasion of 1739, this book instead shows how the trends and events in the second half of the seventeenth century inadvertently set the stage for the emergence of the people as actors in a regime which saw them only as the ruled"-- Provided by publisher.
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